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January 31
In honor of the Presentation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary

Rosary Vigil | Veneration of Rosary
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Rosary Vigil
7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

 
Welcome to Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers Shrine staffed and directed by St Michael's World Apostolate.    Send us your petition and it will be placed at the feet of Our Lady at the next Rosary Vigil.
 
Look for the St Michael's World Apostolate banner when you come.
 
A crowd of about 100 pilgrims praying the Rosary, with many of them kneeling in the snow and ice. It was very cold with the temperature in the teens and the wind chill about zero.
 
Three days before the Vigil, we got belted with a snowstorm that left 8 inches of snow.
 
 
Jesus and Our Lady promised to be present at the sacred grounds as long as one person comes here to pray.
 
At 9 p.m. the invocation of the blessing of Jesus and Mary: "All who are able to kneel, please kneel, and with faith lift your Rosary up to Heaven and Jesus and Mary will bless us."
 
 
 
 
College students from New York City attending for the first time.  They found out about Our Lady's message from the article that appeared last fall in the New York Times.
 
Pilgrims reacting and some looking skyward as a very big, low flying, white dove passes overhead.  This was one of the biggest doves we've ever seen.
 
Henry Polak, our Polish mail correspondent, leads the Rosary.
 
Pilgrims bring roses to adorn the Shrine.  Our Lady's Shrine helpers distribute them to everyone later in the evening. These roses are blessed by Jesus and Our Lady during the Rosary Vigil and have the power of cure and conversion.
 
Michael Mangan, President of St Michael's World Apostolate, interviews two young men from upstate New York for St. Michael's Radio Program.
 
Vincent McDonnell, Vigil Coordinator, raises a vigil candle as he leads the pilgrims in repeating the invocation:
Mary, light of the World, pray for us
Our Lady of the Roses, pray for us
Mary, Help of Mothers, pray for us.
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Last updated: 01/31/07